To explore the green development of automobile enterprises and promote the achievement of the“dual carbon”target,based on the bounded rationality assumptions,this study constructed a tripartite evolutionary game mod...To explore the green development of automobile enterprises and promote the achievement of the“dual carbon”target,based on the bounded rationality assumptions,this study constructed a tripartite evolutionary game model of gov-ernment,commercial banks,and automobile enterprises;introduced a dynamic reward and punishment mechanism;and analyzed the development process of the three parties’strategic behavior under the static and dynamic reward and punish-ment mechanism.Vensim PLE was used for numerical simulation analysis.Our results indicate that the system could not reach a stable state under the static reward and punishment mechanism.A dynamic reward and punishment mechanism can effectively improve the system stability and better fit real situations.Under the dynamic reward and punishment mechan-ism,an increase in the initial probabilities of the three parties can promote the system stability,and the government can im-plement effective supervision by adjusting the upper limit of the reward and punishment intensity.Finally,the implementa-tion of green credit by commercial banks plays a significant role in promoting the green development of automobile enter-prises.展开更多
Launch barge is an effective tool for transporting ship segments from one place to another in shipyards. During shifting of segments onto a barge, the slideway on the barge's deck must be adjusted to maintain the sam...Launch barge is an effective tool for transporting ship segments from one place to another in shipyards. During shifting of segments onto a barge, the slideway on the barge's deck must be adjusted to maintain the same level as the wharf and also the barge must be kept level by adjusting the water in the ballast tanks. When to open the adjusting valves is an important factor influencing the barge's trim during the water-adjustment process. Because these adjustments are complex a mathematical model was formulated,after analyzing the characteristics of the process of moving the segments onto the barges deck, and considering the effects of this movement's speed and variations in tidal levels during the move. Then the model was solved by the penalty function method, the grid method, and improved simulated annealing, respectively. The best optimization model and its corresponding solution were then determined. Finally, it was proven that the model and the method adopted are correct and suitable, by calculating and analysing an example.展开更多
Market based initiatives for management of degrading ecosystems and their services have received the added attention as one of the innovative responses in the reent years. Those initiatives such as direct and indirect...Market based initiatives for management of degrading ecosystems and their services have received the added attention as one of the innovative responses in the reent years. Those initiatives such as direct and indirect payment for ecosystem services like premium for rain forest honey, payment by the people at the lower reach to those at the upper reach for the watershed services etc. have drawn the attention of the decision makers as they have proved to be far more cost effective.This paper wynthesizes the key messages from some of the paper are carbon, watershed services and biodiversity, We find that while credible valuation of ecosystem services for all services remain a critical concern behind setting up the payment mechanism, absent of necessary institutional framework may seriously undermine this innovative response for management of ecosystems. In the paper, necessary institutional mechanisms enabling the market for those services have been sketched out, Key messages from those cases have been synthesized.展开更多
As a new variant of vehicle routing problem( VRP),a finished vehicle routing problem with time windows in finished vehicle logistics( FVRPTW) is modeled and solved. An optimization model for FVRPTW is presented with t...As a new variant of vehicle routing problem( VRP),a finished vehicle routing problem with time windows in finished vehicle logistics( FVRPTW) is modeled and solved. An optimization model for FVRPTW is presented with the objective of scheduling multiple transport routes considering loading constraints along with time penalty function to minimize the total cost. Then a genetic algorithm( GA) is developed. The specific encoding and genetic operators for FVRPTW are devised.Especially,in order to accelerate its convergence,an improved termination condition is given. Finally,a case study is used to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm and a series of experiments are conducted over a set of finished vehicle routing problems. The results demonstrate that the proposed approach has superior performance and satisfies users in practice. Contributions of the study are the modeling and solving of a complex FVRPTW in logistics industry.展开更多
This paper proposes a new Energyefficient Survivable Routing Protocol(ESRP)based on solar energy and wind mixed for power supply in green wireless mesh networks(WMNs).The ESRP combines hop penalty strategy and floodin...This paper proposes a new Energyefficient Survivable Routing Protocol(ESRP)based on solar energy and wind mixed for power supply in green wireless mesh networks(WMNs).The ESRP combines hop penalty strategy and flooding delaying strategy to improve the performances of traditional routing protocol.This paper uses QualNet to simulate and verify the performances of proposed ESRP.Compared with the traditional routing protocol,the simulation results show that the energy utilization of ESRP is more efficient by 13%.At the same time,ESRP is more load-balanced to postpone the appearance of the first energy depletion node and reduce the number of energy depletion nodes,and thus it effectively improves network survivability.展开更多
In this narrative, we explore the story of Ananias and Sapphira from the book of Acts in the Christian scriptures. We examine the story in the light of a recent hook by Dominic Johnson (2016), God Is Watching You, a...In this narrative, we explore the story of Ananias and Sapphira from the book of Acts in the Christian scriptures. We examine the story in the light of a recent hook by Dominic Johnson (2016), God Is Watching You, and other related research. The idea of a punitive God and/or the belief in a punitive God may have significant effects on group functioning. The troubling story of Ananias and Sapphira may be seen as a central cog in the cooperative coming together of what became the Christian Church. In our modem world, a punitive God is an idea we seek to avoid but it may be the one that is essential for a peaceful cooperative world.展开更多
Financial support from National Science Foundation for Distinguished Youth (Grant No.70925006), National Natural Sciences Fund Program (Grant No.71103059), Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Program of the Minis...Financial support from National Science Foundation for Distinguished Youth (Grant No.70925006), National Natural Sciences Fund Program (Grant No.71103059), Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Program of the Ministry of Education (Grant No. 10YJC7902930), is gratefully acknowledged. Authors highly appreciate the comments of anonymous reviewers and take sole responsibility for this paper.展开更多
incidents of extreme hyperbole and fraud in celebrity advertisements have occurred repeatedly because advertising participants are driven by commercial interests and it is also relevant to the deep social and cultural...incidents of extreme hyperbole and fraud in celebrity advertisements have occurred repeatedly because advertising participants are driven by commercial interests and it is also relevant to the deep social and cultural background. Therefore, great and prolonged efforts should be made to govern celebrity advertising in a multi-pronged way: strengthening legal supervision on the basis of clearly defined false advertising; establishing early warning and punishing systems including pre-qualification system, filing system and banning system; promoting public interest litigation system; increasing consumers' media literacy.展开更多
An experimental and numerical investigation on the aeroengine blade/case containment analysis is presented. Blade out containment capability analysis is an essential step in the new aeroengine design, but containment ...An experimental and numerical investigation on the aeroengine blade/case containment analysis is presented. Blade out containment capability analysis is an essential step in the new aeroengine design, but containment tests are time-consuming and incur significant costs; thus, developing a short-period and low-cost numerical method is warranted. Using explicit nonlinear dynamic finite element analysis software, the present study numerically investigated the high-speed impact process for simulated blade containment tests which were carried out on high-speed spin testing facility. A number of simulations were conducted using finite element models with different mesh sizes and different values of both the contact penalty factor and the friction coefficient. Detailed comparisons between the experimental and numerical results reveal that the mesh size and the friction coefficient have a considerable impact on the results produced. It is shown that a finer mesh will predict lower containment capability of the case, which is closer to the test data. A larger value of the friction coefficient also predicts lower containment capability. However, the contact penalty factor has little effect on the simulation results if it is large enough to avoid false penetration.展开更多
In this paper, we consider the on-line scheduling of unit time jobs with rejection on rn identical parallel machines. The objective is to minimize the total completion time of the accepted jobs plus the total penalty ...In this paper, we consider the on-line scheduling of unit time jobs with rejection on rn identical parallel machines. The objective is to minimize the total completion time of the accepted jobs plus the total penalty of the rejected jobs. We give an on-line algorithm for the problem with competitive ratio 1/2 (2 +√3) ≈ 1.86602.展开更多
The guide-weight method is introduced to solve the topology optimization problems of thermoelastic structures in this paper.First,the solid isotropic microstructure with penalization(SIMP)with different penalty factor...The guide-weight method is introduced to solve the topology optimization problems of thermoelastic structures in this paper.First,the solid isotropic microstructure with penalization(SIMP)with different penalty factors is selected as a material interpolation model for the thermal and mechanical fields.The general criteria of the guide-weight method is then presented.Two types of iteration formulas of the guide-weight method are applied to the topology optimization of thermoelastic structures,one of which is to minimize the mean compliance of the structure with material constraint,whereas the other one is to minimize the total weight with displacement constraint.For each type of problem,sensitivity analysis is conducted based on SIMP model.Finally,four classical 2-dimensional numerical examples and a 3-dimensional numerical example considering the thermal field are selected to perform calculation.The factors that affect the optimal topology are discussed,and the performance of the guide-weight method is tested.The results show that the guide-weight method has the advantages of simple iterative formula,fast convergence and relatively clear topology result.展开更多
Variable selection is an important research topic in modern statistics, traditional variable selection methods can only select the mean model and(or) the variance model, and cannot be used to select the joint mean, va...Variable selection is an important research topic in modern statistics, traditional variable selection methods can only select the mean model and(or) the variance model, and cannot be used to select the joint mean, variance and skewness models. In this paper, the authors propose the joint location, scale and skewness models when the data set under consideration involves asymmetric outcomes,and consider the problem of variable selection for our proposed models. Based on an efficient unified penalized likelihood method, the consistency and the oracle property of the penalized estimators are established. The authors develop the variable selection procedure for the proposed joint models, which can efficiently simultaneously estimate and select important variables in location model, scale model and skewness model. Simulation studies and body mass index data analysis are presented to illustrate the proposed methods.展开更多
The purpose of this paper is two fold. First, we investigate estimation for varying coefficient partially linear models in which covariates in the nonparametric part are measured with errors. As there would be some sp...The purpose of this paper is two fold. First, we investigate estimation for varying coefficient partially linear models in which covariates in the nonparametric part are measured with errors. As there would be some spurious covariates in the linear part, a penalized profile least squares estimation is suggested with the assistance from smoothly clipped absolute deviation penalty. However, the estimator is often biased due to the existence of measurement errors, a bias correction is proposed such that the estimation consistency with the oracle property is proved. Second, based on the estimator, a test statistic is constructed to check a linear hypothesis of the parameters and its asymptotic properties are studied. We prove that the existence of measurement errors causes intractability of the limiting null distribution that requires a Monte Carlo approximation and the absence of the errors can lead to a chi-square limit. Furthermore, confidence regions of the parameter of interest can also be constructed. Simulation studies and a real data example are conducted to examine the performance of our estimators and test statistic.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(71973001).
文摘To explore the green development of automobile enterprises and promote the achievement of the“dual carbon”target,based on the bounded rationality assumptions,this study constructed a tripartite evolutionary game model of gov-ernment,commercial banks,and automobile enterprises;introduced a dynamic reward and punishment mechanism;and analyzed the development process of the three parties’strategic behavior under the static and dynamic reward and punish-ment mechanism.Vensim PLE was used for numerical simulation analysis.Our results indicate that the system could not reach a stable state under the static reward and punishment mechanism.A dynamic reward and punishment mechanism can effectively improve the system stability and better fit real situations.Under the dynamic reward and punishment mechan-ism,an increase in the initial probabilities of the three parties can promote the system stability,and the government can im-plement effective supervision by adjusting the upper limit of the reward and punishment intensity.Finally,the implementa-tion of green credit by commercial banks plays a significant role in promoting the green development of automobile enter-prises.
文摘Launch barge is an effective tool for transporting ship segments from one place to another in shipyards. During shifting of segments onto a barge, the slideway on the barge's deck must be adjusted to maintain the same level as the wharf and also the barge must be kept level by adjusting the water in the ballast tanks. When to open the adjusting valves is an important factor influencing the barge's trim during the water-adjustment process. Because these adjustments are complex a mathematical model was formulated,after analyzing the characteristics of the process of moving the segments onto the barges deck, and considering the effects of this movement's speed and variations in tidal levels during the move. Then the model was solved by the penalty function method, the grid method, and improved simulated annealing, respectively. The best optimization model and its corresponding solution were then determined. Finally, it was proven that the model and the method adopted are correct and suitable, by calculating and analysing an example.
文摘Market based initiatives for management of degrading ecosystems and their services have received the added attention as one of the innovative responses in the reent years. Those initiatives such as direct and indirect payment for ecosystem services like premium for rain forest honey, payment by the people at the lower reach to those at the upper reach for the watershed services etc. have drawn the attention of the decision makers as they have proved to be far more cost effective.This paper wynthesizes the key messages from some of the paper are carbon, watershed services and biodiversity, We find that while credible valuation of ecosystem services for all services remain a critical concern behind setting up the payment mechanism, absent of necessary institutional framework may seriously undermine this innovative response for management of ecosystems. In the paper, necessary institutional mechanisms enabling the market for those services have been sketched out, Key messages from those cases have been synthesized.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51565036)
文摘As a new variant of vehicle routing problem( VRP),a finished vehicle routing problem with time windows in finished vehicle logistics( FVRPTW) is modeled and solved. An optimization model for FVRPTW is presented with the objective of scheduling multiple transport routes considering loading constraints along with time penalty function to minimize the total cost. Then a genetic algorithm( GA) is developed. The specific encoding and genetic operators for FVRPTW are devised.Especially,in order to accelerate its convergence,an improved termination condition is given. Finally,a case study is used to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm and a series of experiments are conducted over a set of finished vehicle routing problems. The results demonstrate that the proposed approach has superior performance and satisfies users in practice. Contributions of the study are the modeling and solving of a complex FVRPTW in logistics industry.
基金This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61172051, 61071124), the Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation (121065), the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (11-0075), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (N110204001, N110604008), and the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (20110042110023, 20110042120035).
文摘This paper proposes a new Energyefficient Survivable Routing Protocol(ESRP)based on solar energy and wind mixed for power supply in green wireless mesh networks(WMNs).The ESRP combines hop penalty strategy and flooding delaying strategy to improve the performances of traditional routing protocol.This paper uses QualNet to simulate and verify the performances of proposed ESRP.Compared with the traditional routing protocol,the simulation results show that the energy utilization of ESRP is more efficient by 13%.At the same time,ESRP is more load-balanced to postpone the appearance of the first energy depletion node and reduce the number of energy depletion nodes,and thus it effectively improves network survivability.
文摘In this narrative, we explore the story of Ananias and Sapphira from the book of Acts in the Christian scriptures. We examine the story in the light of a recent hook by Dominic Johnson (2016), God Is Watching You, and other related research. The idea of a punitive God and/or the belief in a punitive God may have significant effects on group functioning. The troubling story of Ananias and Sapphira may be seen as a central cog in the cooperative coming together of what became the Christian Church. In our modem world, a punitive God is an idea we seek to avoid but it may be the one that is essential for a peaceful cooperative world.
基金Financial support from National Science Foundation for Distinguished Youth (Grant No.70925006), National Natural Sciences Fund Program (Grant No.71103059), Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Program of the Ministry of Education (Grant No. 10YJC7902930), is gratefully acknowledged. Authors highly appreciate the comments of anonymous reviewers and take sole responsibility for this paper.
文摘Financial support from National Science Foundation for Distinguished Youth (Grant No.70925006), National Natural Sciences Fund Program (Grant No.71103059), Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Program of the Ministry of Education (Grant No. 10YJC7902930), is gratefully acknowledged. Authors highly appreciate the comments of anonymous reviewers and take sole responsibility for this paper.
文摘incidents of extreme hyperbole and fraud in celebrity advertisements have occurred repeatedly because advertising participants are driven by commercial interests and it is also relevant to the deep social and cultural background. Therefore, great and prolonged efforts should be made to govern celebrity advertising in a multi-pronged way: strengthening legal supervision on the basis of clearly defined false advertising; establishing early warning and punishing systems including pre-qualification system, filing system and banning system; promoting public interest litigation system; increasing consumers' media literacy.
基金supported by the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No. Y1090245)the Chinese Aviation Propulsion Technology Development Program (No. APTD-11)
文摘An experimental and numerical investigation on the aeroengine blade/case containment analysis is presented. Blade out containment capability analysis is an essential step in the new aeroengine design, but containment tests are time-consuming and incur significant costs; thus, developing a short-period and low-cost numerical method is warranted. Using explicit nonlinear dynamic finite element analysis software, the present study numerically investigated the high-speed impact process for simulated blade containment tests which were carried out on high-speed spin testing facility. A number of simulations were conducted using finite element models with different mesh sizes and different values of both the contact penalty factor and the friction coefficient. Detailed comparisons between the experimental and numerical results reveal that the mesh size and the friction coefficient have a considerable impact on the results produced. It is shown that a finer mesh will predict lower containment capability of the case, which is closer to the test data. A larger value of the friction coefficient also predicts lower containment capability. However, the contact penalty factor has little effect on the simulation results if it is large enough to avoid false penetration.
基金This work is supported by Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 10171054.
文摘In this paper, we consider the on-line scheduling of unit time jobs with rejection on rn identical parallel machines. The objective is to minimize the total completion time of the accepted jobs plus the total penalty of the rejected jobs. We give an on-line algorithm for the problem with competitive ratio 1/2 (2 +√3) ≈ 1.86602.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51375251)the National Basic Research Program("973"Program)(Grant No.2013CB035400)of China
文摘The guide-weight method is introduced to solve the topology optimization problems of thermoelastic structures in this paper.First,the solid isotropic microstructure with penalization(SIMP)with different penalty factors is selected as a material interpolation model for the thermal and mechanical fields.The general criteria of the guide-weight method is then presented.Two types of iteration formulas of the guide-weight method are applied to the topology optimization of thermoelastic structures,one of which is to minimize the mean compliance of the structure with material constraint,whereas the other one is to minimize the total weight with displacement constraint.For each type of problem,sensitivity analysis is conducted based on SIMP model.Finally,four classical 2-dimensional numerical examples and a 3-dimensional numerical example considering the thermal field are selected to perform calculation.The factors that affect the optimal topology are discussed,and the performance of the guide-weight method is tested.The results show that the guide-weight method has the advantages of simple iterative formula,fast convergence and relatively clear topology result.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.11261025,11561075the Natural Science Foundation of Yunnan Province under Grant No.2016FB005the Program for Middle-aged Backbone Teacher,Yunnan University
文摘Variable selection is an important research topic in modern statistics, traditional variable selection methods can only select the mean model and(or) the variance model, and cannot be used to select the joint mean, variance and skewness models. In this paper, the authors propose the joint location, scale and skewness models when the data set under consideration involves asymmetric outcomes,and consider the problem of variable selection for our proposed models. Based on an efficient unified penalized likelihood method, the consistency and the oracle property of the penalized estimators are established. The authors develop the variable selection procedure for the proposed joint models, which can efficiently simultaneously estimate and select important variables in location model, scale model and skewness model. Simulation studies and body mass index data analysis are presented to illustrate the proposed methods.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11401006, 11671299 and 11671042)a grant from the University Grants Council of Hong Kong+1 种基金the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2017M611083)the National Statistical Science Research Program of China (Grant No. 2015LY55)
文摘The purpose of this paper is two fold. First, we investigate estimation for varying coefficient partially linear models in which covariates in the nonparametric part are measured with errors. As there would be some spurious covariates in the linear part, a penalized profile least squares estimation is suggested with the assistance from smoothly clipped absolute deviation penalty. However, the estimator is often biased due to the existence of measurement errors, a bias correction is proposed such that the estimation consistency with the oracle property is proved. Second, based on the estimator, a test statistic is constructed to check a linear hypothesis of the parameters and its asymptotic properties are studied. We prove that the existence of measurement errors causes intractability of the limiting null distribution that requires a Monte Carlo approximation and the absence of the errors can lead to a chi-square limit. Furthermore, confidence regions of the parameter of interest can also be constructed. Simulation studies and a real data example are conducted to examine the performance of our estimators and test statistic.